Glyphs Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 Hi, There's a bug that's been nagging me for some time. It happens like this: Open a new document, create a text field and enter some text with a circumflex accent, for example "azerty â azerty". And then, cancel everything you did. When I do this, the cancelling ends at the circumflex accent. Impossible to cancel anything written before it. Is there a way to go around this bug? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 If you do another Cmd+Z does it go back further? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glyphs Posted October 30, 2022 Author Share Posted October 30, 2022 5 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: If you do another Cmd+Z does it go back further? It never go any further than the accent. And I can tell you I did a lot of Cmd+Z Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 Strange. I have no ideas, then. Sorry. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glyphs Posted October 30, 2022 Author Share Posted October 30, 2022 Can you reproduce the bug or does it work on your side? It's just a matter of typing a text like "azerty â azerty" in any text field and then try to cancel the whole text. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 How are you typing the â character? Is your system/keyboard non US/UK? Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glyphs Posted October 30, 2022 Author Share Posted October 30, 2022 Yes, it's a French system. First I press the circumflex accent key, then the letter I want the accent on to have the letter with a circumflex accent. There's no bug when I cut and paste the words. It happens only when I'm typing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 I duplicated this and it's specific to macOS. There are two workarounds, one is to use Edit > Undo or the History Panel instead of Cmd+Z to undo. The other is to just press any key because you're stuck in the accent-creation step and then you'll be able to undo as much as you want. I'm using Ventura, which OS are you using? I'm asking because I discovered a second bug at the same time and it seems both of these would have been reported many times but you say you've been experiencing it for a while. Serif, here are the two bugs and a screen recording that shows both: Undoing an accented character Create a text frame/artistic text object Type a word before typing the word that will contain the accent - this is to avoid auto capitalization of the word containing the accent Type a word with an accent such as resumé - type the é by pressing option+e to create the accent and then press e Press Cmd+Z for Undo - don't choose Edit > Undo or use the History panel - Cmd+Z will undo typing the e but not the accent - it appears to the user that they're stuck because pressing Cmd+Z again won't work but in reality you just need to cancel the accent which you can do by pressing any key. Note that choosing the menu command or using the History panel will work, this is just a problem with Cmd+Z Cannot type an accented character in the first word of a paragraph with auto capitalization: Create a text frame/artistic text object Type a word with an accent such as resumé - the moment you press option+e to create the accent the auto capitalization kicks in and changes the r to an R, interrupting the creation of the accented character. The autocapitalization should not be allowed to happen when creating an accent. Screen Recording 2022-10-30 at 9.13.02 AM.mov Quote Download a free manual for Publisher 2.4 from this forum - expanded 300-page PDF My system: Affinity 2.4.2 for macOS Sonoma 14.4.1, MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glyphs Posted October 30, 2022 Author Share Posted October 30, 2022 2 hours ago, MikeTO said: I duplicated this and it's specific to macOS. There are two workarounds, one is to use Edit > Undo or the History Panel instead of Cmd+Z to undo. Thanks! Using Edit > Undo or the History Panel works! 3 hours ago, MikeTO said: The other is to just press any key because you're stuck in the accent-creation step and then you'll be able to undo as much as you want. Doesn't work, sorry. It does gets me back in text editing mode, but cancelling gets me back in the accent creation step. 3 hours ago, MikeTO said: I'm using Ventura, which OS are you using? I'm asking because I discovered a second bug at the same time and it seems both of these would have been reported many times but you say you've been experiencing it for a while. Ventura too, but the bug has been here since Monterey, I think. I've been noticing it since I've begun to write directly in Publisher. Before that, I only copied and pasted or imported my text in it. I didn't know about the second bug. Thanks again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted October 31, 2022 Share Posted October 31, 2022 FWIW, no such undo issues here in 10.14.6. Mojave, all options seem to undo (menu, cmd-z, del-key) – Also different: Auto-capitalisation is not activated / German keyboard / the OPT key doesn't create these chars but either I press the single ^ or ´ or ` keys first, or press hold a vowel to get this pop-up to chose from (via cursor-click or typing the number): But strange: in my first trial with "azerty â azerty" I was not able to undo with cmd-z but got stuck at the ^ like you. Also odd, when pressing the single ^ or ´ I got the glyph with a yellow highlight, indicating it is waiting for a vowel. Both doesn't happen / occur again. Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff NathanC Posted October 31, 2022 Staff Share Posted October 31, 2022 Hi @Glyphs, This problem has been logged previously with the developers, I've added your report for consideration. 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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